[cobalt-developers] /usr/bin/whack-cache

[Thomas Novin <thnov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed that the web interface for 'Empty Cache' on our Cobalt CacheRaQ2 
didn't work correctly so I examined /usr/bin/whack-cache. So, here follows 
a brief explanation of what I did to make it work.

[...]

if [ -f /home/squid2/cache ] ; then
     ^^^
        mv /home/squid2/cache /home/squid2/00cache

        mkdir /home/squid2/cache
[...]

Shouldn't this be 'if [ -d /home/squid2/cache ]; then' and so on? It's 
supposed to be a directory, not a file as the if statement checks for.

Later when the script tries to remove /home/squid2/00cache it runs 'rm -f' 
instead of 'rm -rf'. Yet again, it treats /home/squid2/{00}cache as if it 
were a file.

So a 'diff whack-cache whack-cache.orig' gives an output of:

[root@cache2 bin]# diff whack-cache whack-cache.orig
12c12
< if [ -d /home/squid/cache ] ; then
---
> if [ -f /home/squid/cache ] ; then
22c22
< if [ -d /home/squid2/cache ] ; then
---
> if [ -f /home/squid2/cache ] ; then
30c30
<       rm -rf /home/squid2/00cache < /dev/null >& /dev/null &
---
>       rm -f /home/squid2/00cache < /dev/null >& /dev/null &

Hmm, I don't know if this is a known problem / or even possibly me beeing 
wrong? Looked through the KB without any results.

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